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Copy Mountain
Thursday, March 27th, 2008There is a local web designer named Kaz Raad re-selling my work without my permission. Dear Kaz, stop being a jerk and charging people for stuff I made that you modified slightly. If you are working with him, please know that he is charging you for work that I was not properly paid for. [...]
Stairway, 2005-2007
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Open Doors Expansion opened this past weekend. These are a few photos of my installation, Stairway followed by pictures of the work in progress and the original scale model. The work features a 20-foot steel staircase with a 6-inch cement base that surrounds a pre-existing wall and is covered in over 6500 collected/donated [...]
Call for Trophies
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007[Update: Oct. 31 2007 - I have stopped collecting trophies for this project and begun installing the work at The Dallas Contemporary. If you have not received a DHL waybill in the mail, then I will not be able to use your trophies inthis project and I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused [...]
Soapbox Optional
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006In order to read Salon’s wonderful interview with Steven Johnson, an author admirably obsessed with emergence and urban systems, you must first click through a History Channel interstitial advertisement for its new show about plane-based killing, coyly named Dogfights. This is the passing glance, the war seeping into the daily reading. The rendered fighter jet strafes [...]
Site Update
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006I’ve made some significant updates to my site’s art portfolio. Older works have now been included, more pictures added, more context given. The newer works from Open Doors Collective’s In Between are finally included. The selected works are organized by year because organizing by format feels limited. The portfolio uses a WordPress plugin that [...]
A small piece
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005The stout black haired barrista at the crammed coffee shop was clearly tired. He fussed with his green apron sending the day’s danish flakes to the floor. His replacement crew for the late-night rush left him to rot in a bit of overtime and his mug smiled uselessly. We had gathered there for the [...]